15 June 2012

Random Beer Roundup - The Father's Day Edition

Happy Father's Day this weekend to all the Dads out there!

A few tickets for our CBMTCBL event at Brugge on June 23rd are available. $35 forgreat food and beer.

Homebrewers: Next Friday, June 22nd is the deadline for entries to the Brewer's Cup. Entries will be accepted at the Sun King Tasting Room and you can register online (Tom says "for the system's sake, please don't wait until the last minute!"). Find more information and links to registration at brewerscup.org.

Thr3e wise Men now serves all of their beers in a 101oz. Table Top Tap every day of the week for $25!! If that does not make you excited then come in on Thursday and get one of these Table Top Taps for only $15!!!

Upland Brewing Co. is bringing international touring act Okkervil River to Bloomington, IN on
August 31st, 2012 for an outdoor concert to benefit Sycamore Land Trust. The bill will also feature local favorites that have not been announced yet. Doors open at 5pm, and music starts at 6.
Tickets for the Okkervil River concert go on sale Friday, June 15th. They are $20 in advance and $25 on the day of the show, and are available at Upland’s Bloomington Brew Pub and Indy Tasting Room, as well as the Buskirk Chumley Box Office, and online at www.hillbillyhaiku.org.

For Carry OutFrom Jake at United Package Liquors in Broad Ripple:

We have our Indy's Wine & Brew Fest on June 15th 7-10pm at the Broad Ripple Strip Station. Attached are details about the event and a product list.

Early Entry tickets are available to allow patrons to get in at 6pm. They are limited to the first 200 people and will not be available at the door.

Big thanks to Mike & Brandy from Triton for coming in to Tuesday Night Trivia last night and playing. We always enjoy having Triton on tap, but even more so when they show up to drink!

This upcoming Tuesday we will have Upland in with Cari and will be featuring some fantastic beers. Upland always has a few interesting things to throw at us (and hopefully this will bump me up in the Sour Reserve Lottery chances.) $3.50 pints of delicious Upland will be flowing until they pop.

Chowdown Midtown will be running until this Sunday. We are featuing a different craft beer flight every night to go along with our 2 for $30 deal. It's a great time to see what we are about and sample some delicious brews at the same time. Reservations are not needed and call ahead seating is avaialble....so don't make any weak excuses!

Join us at any of our Scotty’s locations this coming Monday June 18th when every single location will start serving some amazing beer from Thr3e Wise Men Brewing Company! All of our Scotty’s Brewhouse location around the state will have the Snow Bunny Blonde, Golden Zoe IPA & Centennial Martyr Double IPA. Scotty’s Lakehouse & Scotty’s Burger Joint will have Snow Bunny Blonde & Centennial Martyr Double IPA.

Scotty’s Brewhouse Downtown is now serving a great local beer from Fountain Square! We are now pouring their Tri-IPA! You can come in every Wednesday and get this very awesome IPA for only $9.00!

Brew Haven 2012 is going to be even bigger and better than last year's event! We're adding lots more space for a second tent full of breweries. We already have more than 30 breweries on board and that number is sure to steadily increase. Check out our BeerFinder for an updated list of the breweries (with beers to be added) and an evolving interactive map of the festival to make it easy to find the beers you want to sample.We are currently expecting 43 breweries to be pouring draft beer at the fest and that number only continues to increase! Watch as the number of beers grows and is sure to exceed 200. Then, there's the Homebrew...our talented local club will be pouring 50 of their tasty concoctions and have invited their contemporaries from around the region to add theirs. Make sure you're following Brew Haven on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest updates.

This is a 21+ event. Ticket includes entry into Conner Prairie as well as a tasting from all breweries.• $25 per person• $12 for designated driversInformation• Call (317) 776-6006

From Charles at Story Brewhouse LLC:

Beer and Creative Writing Project Seeks Backers

The following is a press release from Charles Stanley, founder of Story Brewhouse LLC, and best known to the craft beer world as the Strategic Projects Manager for Upland Brewing Co.:

I recently founded Story Brewhouse LLC to explore the creative combination of beer and literature. My first project, A Six Pack of Stories, will be a collection of short fiction and creative non-fiction in which beer plays an important role in the plot or theme.

For those not familiar with Kickstarter, it is an online platform that allows creators to post projects to which benefactors contribute money in return for gifts related to the projects. Kickstarter uses an “All or Nothing” funding system: the creator sets a funding goal and a deadline, and if the project raises that money in the allotted amount of time, the creator keeps it. But if enough money isn’t raised, the creator gets nothing.

More about the project
The idea of A Six Pack of Stories came to me when I was combining two of my favorite activities: reading a novel and drinking a beer. (Don’t most good ideas seem to happen when a beer is involved?) It occurred to me that while the craft beer movement has integrated itself with visual art, music, and many other forms of creative expression, there has been little overlap with creative writing.

Once the project has been funded, I will solicit writers and beer enthusiasts to submit stories for consideration. I expect to receive wide range of story types, from the light-hearted and humorous to the thoughtful and heart breaking. The collection will reflect the wide variety of situations and feelings with which beer is associated in our lives.

The book will published for multiple e-reader platforms as well as in hard copy.

KOTBR #90 - Medal Winners - We visit Barley Island and Brugge Brasserie in Broad Ripple to try some medal winning beers. Things get interesting when we are joined by some special guests, including Michael Phelps, Rob Halford, Glenn Danzig, and Brugge's very own Ted Miller.

Beer: The Pedal Pusher's Potion - Our first in depth feature receives support from Dogfish Head, Left Hand, Breckenridge Brewery, and Smuttynose, and draws in hits from hundreds of cyclists looking for a beer buzz.